New Delhi: Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav will file his nomination papers on Tuesday from Azamgarh, a town in eastern Uttar Pradesh. Sources said he has strictly directed his party leaders that there should be no major roadshow during nominations.
He will reach Azamgarh around 11:50 am by a helicopter and later go to central election office to file the nomination paper.
Mulayam is contest from two seats - Mainpuri and Azamgarh - in the Lok Sabha elections in a bid to counter Bharatiya Janata Party prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.
In the 2009 elections, Mulayam won the Mainpuri seat by a margin of over 1.6 lakh votes. And BJP's Ramakant Yadav won the Azamgarh constituency by nearly 50,000 votes. SP candidate Durga Prasad Yadav came third in the constituency behind BSP's Akbar Ahmad Dampi.
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